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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic
Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022
pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433464
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...
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Citizens' opinions of and experiences with government responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam
Huyen Thanh Do; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Long Thanh Nguyen; … - 2022
This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...
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Social safety nets in Tunisia : do benefits reach the poor and vulnerable households at the regional level?
Nasri, Khaled - 2020
disagreement between eligibility criteria and a person's poverty status. …
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International effects of euro area versus US policy uncertainty : a FAVAR approach
Belke, Ansgar; Osowski, Thomas - 2017
Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, we estimate a large-scale FAVAR model for 18 OECD member countries. We quantify the global effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks and check whether the signs, the magnitude, and the...
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The role of institutional trust in medical care seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wong, Li Ping; Wu, Qunhong; Hao, Yanhua; Chen, Xi; … - 2020
This paper investigates the associations between institution trust and public response to the COVID-19 outbreak. An Internet-based, cross-sectional survey was administered on January 29, 2020 to the epicenter Hubei province, China. A total of 4,393 adults who ≥18 years of age and residing or...
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The role of institutions in job teleworkability before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Norlander, Peter; Erickson, Christopher - 2022
The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union...
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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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